First, I’ll send my hopes and prayers to the seller that you can perform.

They cost $800k+ though but well worth it when want investment that actually performs profitably.

Location analysis is crucial, considering demographics, retail market performance, and traffic counts.

From a performance standpoint, I see a big change.

While renovations faced delays, and initial rental demand was slower than anticipated due to construction setbacks at the casino, the property is now performing well as a long-term rental.

While you shouldn’t categorize all tenants and it’s the landlords responsibility to properly screen, the tenants who reside in better situated housing and pay higher rents are more financially responsible meaning lower rate of rent loss and will generally take better care of the property which combined will result in less time allocated towards management functions if self-performed or more favorable management fee structures if 3rd party management companies are utilized (which ties back to #1, as well).

To maximize the tax benefits of STRs, it’s essential to track your time and other people's time spent on the property, avoid staying in the property more than 15 days, and perform a cost segregation study to accelerate depreciation.

.- If the OP is generally telling the truth, we will expose the syndicator's performance and behavior in threatening and suing their own investor as far and wide as we possibly can.

The problem is NOT the use of remote entity as any fraudulent  activity will fall back on the individual performing fraudulent acts.  

I've got 2 condos, a 2 bed at Maui Banyan and a 1 bed next door at Kihei Akahi.I'd definitely agree with @Patrick Franta - from my experience as well, the 1 bed unit has performed better.Also props to @Mike Neubauer for sharing his knowledge and experience with me - I'd definitely recommend you take him up on his offer if you have questions etc.I recently heard that the County of Maui is considering a ~50% increase in property tax for short term rentals from the current $9.37 rate to $15.41, equal to what time share units pay.